Cop faked GED and medals for Iraq
Stephen Chase, a Cape Coral, FL police officer was forced to resign when it was discovered that he had faked his GED completion, and now, the News-Press uncovers the fact that he had lied to them two years ago in an interview.
In a 2009 interview, Stephen Chase told The News-Press he had received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, among the nation’s highest combat decorations, during tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The National Guard, however, said no documentation exists for the three medals or of Chase being deployed to Iraq.
Let me make this clear for the phonies out there, honorable service is sufficient. You sully your otherwise stellar military career when you make shit up. You shit on the rest of us who didn’t have the opportunity to do anything heroic or particularly valorous. We’re proud of our service regardless. Free speech, my pink, pimpled ass.
Category: Phony soldiers
Okay, here’s the situation. Chase resigned when he applied to another department and that department discovered that his claimed GED was earned by another man by the same name. Chase must have a horseshoe up his butt.
Free Ride #1. Coral Gables PD did a lousy job in checking Chase out when he was hired there. He lied about his qualifications.
Free Ride #2. Chase was permitted to resign from Coral Gables PD rather than being fired. This means two things. First, that he was permitted to resign, that is, his resignation was accepted. Second, he was not charged with fraud or lying on his application.
Free Ride #3. It seems that he was not charged with lying in his application to the sheriff’s department either.
Free Ride #4. He was not charged with theft of the other Chase’s identity.
Free Ride #5. He has not been charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act. It is law and Florida is not in the 9th Circuit.
Free Ride #6. He is still breathing.
This just goes to show that no matter that eventually these things will be found out, the phonies out there both big and ‘small’ will always take that risk of embellishing their past for some form of gain personal or public.
One thing is for sure, there will never be a shortage of candidates for next year’s Macbeth awards (and the year after, and so on and so forth).
Must be the state of Florida also doesn’t do any background checks before they certify someone as “qualified” to be an LEO? So, I would add that to AirCav’s free rides(nicely put, btw), this being, probably, Free Ride #1.
@#1…He probably resigned before he was fired. This way they beat them to the punch. That is the SOP for civil service phonies when they get caught (Mickey Lloyd Cobb County Public Safety Director).
Issue this son of a biotch a broom, mop & bucket, put his ass to work cleaning barracks somewhere. Leavenworth Correctional Barracks sounds fine to me….
Hmmm. My first question was when departments quit doing background checks – all used to do at least some semblance of them.
That’s funny, in Calif when you get hired as a cop, they run you through a polygraph, and a psyc test/interview. They do a pretty good job to make sure you ain’t lying and aren’t too crazy.
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This is appalling, and disappointing to the highest order. Not sure what is worse. That Mr. Chase lied about his military record, or was able to manufacture his identity to the point where a great dept. like CGPD had its investigators deligence questioned.
As for how I think this happened? Honestly, it appears Mr. Chase is a textbook sociopath. Of course he passed the polygraph and oral interviews. One of the great attributes of sociopathological personalities is to literally convince themselves, and everybody around them that their “shit” is real.
As a newly certified officer, I don’t think this is a matter of the background check being ineffective. His ability to lie to investigators is the crux. CJST should have pulled his ticket when CGPD released him